Audio dropouts all the time

[Kayonardo]

Hello,


I was a Pro Tools user for a long time and now installed the test version again to bounce some old vocals from a few months ago. The problem is, I have audio dropouts all the time. Never experienced this before. The vocal tracks almost sound like a censored version. Every few seconds there is a word or sentence missing. (Other parts of the song every time I playback, not always the same parts missing) Its with playback and also when I bounce. I tried it with different buffer size and cache size, makes no difference.


Has anybody an idea?
I work on a imac pro with Mac Sierra.


Many thanks!

[JFreak]

Hi, a little more info is needed here. Please take a look at the Help Us Help You page that is linked to the forum header.

[albee1952]

While we wait for more info, here are a couple of things to check:
1-What happens if you bypass all plugins on the vocal track?(if it sounds fine, then its a plugin causing the dropout. Maybe running in a demo mode)
2-is all audio dropping out, or just a single track? If its all audio, bypass all plugins on any master and/or mix bus routing(again, suspect a plugin)
3-what is your playback buffer set to? If its low, bump it up to 1024 and see if that alters things.
4-is the dropout consistent or random?(consistent meaning its always the same spot, the same word, etc).

[Rajsmoove]

Had the same issue. Go to apple system pref/ date&time. Uncheck the automatically detect time using current location and the same with time zone on the 2nd tab. As unrelated as this seems, since I did that I haven't had any more audio drop outs.

[Intransit]

Is that a real solution? lol. Because I'm getting audio dropouts too, totally clean install of 2020.3 and Mojave 10.14.6

[Rajsmoove]

Amazingly yes lol. I googled it and the results came up about the date and time. I did it and haven't had one dropout since. Was something about the t2 chip checking the network connection blah blah blah. All I cared was that it worked. It was happening across all audio coming from my computer. Go figure. I was mad at PT until it came up being an apple bug